Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture : which texts are now added in the end of the booke ... Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people / By Thomas Godwyn.

Thomas Godwyn

Date:: 1631

Credit: Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture : which texts are now added in the end of the booke ... Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people / By Thomas Godwyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$icfiding at Rome, vbco whom the other fuhor- ■ ruT„G,°,ucrnors g*te vp their accounts, i Jiete■ Publicans were hated in all Prouinces becanfe of their exaftions, but chiefly in the’ Commonwealth of the levees, becanfe thogh it were chiefly maintained by the GaUUmhn was generally inclined vnto by the lewes, that Triourc ought not to be payed by them: t,rcr , . th,sl,3trtd« COnfirmed by that RabinicaU-axo- a'L%';■ not a wife out of that family wherein ' yZW- {f rnl}-f0rfich are aU pMieanes. Yea a faithful! Pubhcane was Co rare at Rome it 'r fu,thai:0ne s.ahlnUi for h‘s honeft managing o that office, in an honourable remembrance * *.„.*«« * C&Ct ~images ereaed 7th this faU PMicane. And therefore no maruell. if in hancf C ’Fuil,canes and f,merj go hand in k is now generally reeciued as a truth vn. doubted, that not onelv Heathen people but _ n a j- f°met,mes len’es themfelues became Publi lP7 ‘ f 7eTUT raSOfmi0ther °Pini°nc, and bur 'h ht f^utthe PMcmes were Heathens. t ■ l , , ‘c? 113111 beene in that long finccconfii’ luvZf andreafonitfelfe perfwadeth 1 he C0Ilrranc. Firft, Matthew who was a Pub. m-rfw was afterward an Hpoftle, and there- ore vnhkely to haue becne an Heathen. Se¬ condly, Zombis name was a pure Hebrew n me haumg no affimtie with Romane names. Thirdly, the or0Und or principaI] argu_ ment$

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